Bernard of Clairvaux on the life of the mind
By: by John R. Sommerfeldt.
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: Bernard, -- of Clairvaux, Saint, -- 1090 or 91-1153.
Description: "This work, by one of the world's leading medievalists and summarizing a lifetime of scholarship on Bernard of Clairvaux, is a study of the many-faceted, complex, yet consistent thought of the most influential thinker of the first half of the twelfth century - whose thought influenced all medieval thinkers, including Luther and Calvin."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-192) and index.
Table of contents: title: Bernard and the life of the mind; title: Mysticism : the truth as gift; title: Humanism : beauty and the pursuit of truth; title: Scholasticism : the roles of reason; title: Common-sense consideration and counsel; title: The relationship between the paths to truth; title: Inconsistency and order; title: The chimaera revisited; title: The Abelard affair.